Revealing New Truths about Spain's Violent Past

Paloma Aguilar is Associate Professor of Political Science at UNED, Madrid, Spain. She is the author of Memory and Amnesia: The Role of the Spanish Civil War in the Transition to Democracy (2001) and coeditor of The Politics of Memory: Transitional Justice in Democratizing Societies (2001). She was Tinker Professor at the University of Wisconsin and Visiting Professor at Princeton University.Leigh A. Payne is Professor of Sociology and Latin America and Fellow of St Antony’s College, University of Oxford, UK. Her research has received support from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, British Academy, Social Science Research Council, and various foundations.  She is the author of Unsettling Accounts: Neither Truth nor Reconciliation in Confessions of State Violence (2008).

"The credentials of the two authors to this book, as major international experts in their fields, are unimpeachable. The subject is one of burning interest. It is crisply written, carefully thought out and based on an impressive knowledge of the massive empirical literature on the subject as well as the more accessible theoretical material." - Paul Preston, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK

• Acknowledgements.- Introduction.- 1. Unsettling Accounts.- 2. Heroic Historic Confessions.- 3. Few, Fugative, and Fleeting Confessions.- 4. Unsettling the Balance.- 5. Preposterous Denial.- 6. Unsettling Bones as Unsettling Accounts.- Conclusion.